Henry Ford

Dearborn Michigan, the hometown of Dave, Lyn, Jesse and Henry Ford.
The founder of the famous motorcar company, perfected the assembly
line, created the "Five Dollar Day", and was at one point
the world's richest man.

Milton Bradley

Springfield,
Mass is the final resting place of the man that over a century ago
founded the company (now a division of Hasbro) that produced the
games that made his name synonymous with family fun.

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Levi Strauss

Colma, CA, the famous "City of the Dead" on the San
Francisco peninsula includes all the graves relocated from city
cemetaries and the earthly remains of the man whose name has come to
mean tough denim clothing.

Proctor & Gamble

Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinati contains the family graves for the
two men that started a modest soap and candle company that eventualy
grew to an international conglomerate of quality household consumer
goods.The company neary invented many techniques to study and exploit aspects
of consumer behavior.

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Kroger

Spring Grove also contains the grave of the founder of a small
regional grocery chain that is now a national presence through the
purchase of such other chains as Ralph's, King Soopers, Fred Meyers,
Smith's and Fry's.

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H. J. Heinz

Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh has the grave the man famous for 57
varieties of ketchup. This multi-billion dollar world-wide
corporation once employed as spokesanimals both Morris the Cat (9-Lives)
and Charlie the Tuna (Star-Kist). The Heinz family foundation
underwrites many local public arts projects. Buried nearby is his
grandson H J Heinz III, the Senator from Pennsylvania that died in a
plane crash in 1991.

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Schlitz, Blatz and Pabst

Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee contains the famiy graves of men
whose small family breweries grew to national prominence. While their
companies have recently faded due to industry consolidations and
microbrews, their names still mean beer. The cemetery provides a map
and refers to them collectively as "the beer barons" and
provided me small informational postcards about them.

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George Eastman

Buried on the property of the Kodak campus in Rochester, NY. How old
do you have to be to have Eastman-Kodak roll off your tongue.

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Optical Pioneers

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Baush & Lomb

On my visit to Rochester, I visited the family plot for the founders
of the optics company.